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Re: ksh 11/16/88e now available in AT&T Toolchest

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From: Dave Sill
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 1990 18:03
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In article <4140@lib.tmc.edu>, jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
>
>OK...so it's not OK to blatantly advertise commercial products, but it's OK to
>blatantly advertise the soi-disant Free Software Foundation's products. I get
>it now.

That's right.  In the former case, a comercial entity gains advantage
at the expense of the USENET community.  In the latter, everyone
benefits and no profits are made at the expense of others.

>GNU stuff is *not* free. It costs something other than money, though: it costs
>your freedom to do as you like with your code if you include even a line of
>their code. $150 sure sounds cheap by comparison.

Yes, their are restrictions on what you can do with *their*
code--you're free to do whatever you want with your own code--but
isn't that only fair?  And there is absolutely no reason why one would
need to include a modified bash in their product, so the fear of it
causing you to give your precious code away is baseless.

-- 
Dave Sill (de5@ornl.gov)
Martin Marietta Energy Systems
Workstation Support
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From: de5@de5.ctd.ornl.gov (Dave Sill)
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Subject: Re: ksh 11/16/88e now available in AT&T Toolchest
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Date: 2 Oct 90 18:03:01 GMT
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